Salt dough ornaments

Porter's not much on the art projects, but I sure am, so yesterday we made salt dough ornaments. He does like helping me cook and do anything that's generally too much for a 3 year old or gonna make a mess, so this was right up his alley!!






He sampled the dough. Once. And then asked for something to drink.
We cut them out with cookie cutters and them they had to bake for about 5 1/2 hours. The recipe said 4-6 hours.



It was too late to paint them last night, so we did that this morning.















It started getting a little out of hand when he started painting himself, so we skipped to putting the lights on the Christmas trees. I had used his little index finger to indent the dough before they baked and then we used his finger again in the paint to make the lights.



Here are some other pictures. You can pretty much tell which ones he painted/picked the colors for. (purple snowman, orange Christmas tree....)












We did a handprint one..... I may be a little to heavy to hang as an ornament. We'll see.


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